The Shanghai Auto Show is taking on new significance this year as the Chinese car industry is providing a rare glimmer of opportunity for beleaguered American car makers. GM is planning to move factories to China, Bloomberg...
Read MoreAustralia’s Mandarin-speaking Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is having to fend off criticism that he’s too soft on China as anti-China sentiment grows at home. From Reuters: With Rudd urging a greater IMF role for China...
Read MoreChina’s recycling industry has taken a hit from the global economic crisis, as commodity prices sharply decrease. From Dan Levin of the New York Times: Each morning Tian Wengui emerges from the home he makes under a bridge...
Read MoreThe Silk Street Market in Beijing is famous among locals and tourists alike as a massive mall of fake designer goods. Now Silk Street vendors of counterfeit bags and clothing are protesting a crackdown on their stalls by the...
Read MoreHere is a documentary about the rock scene in China, which interviews with and footage of several bands, including Tookoo, and foreigners working in the industry: Part One: Part Two: Found via Andy Best’s blog, which...
Read MoreAs the last miners were rescued from the latest mining disaster in Shanxi, provincial governor apologized to families of those killed. From AP: Weeping wives and mothers were supported by relatives as they knelt over bodies...
Read MoreBanjo player and singer Abigail Washburn, from Illinois, had a chance to go to Chengdu, China, in 1996 and challenged herself to learn Chinese and local operas. Thereafter, she combined the roots of American music with Chinese...
Read MoreIn his short video “China’s Male Prostitutes,” Tom Bannigan interviews two male prostitutes and Tong Ge from the Beijing Gender Health Education Institute in an exploration of the male sex industry in China,...
Read MoreThe Chinese Health Ministry has reported in a statement that, to date, six babies have died and 294,000 have been sickened as a result of tainted milk: “Most of the sickened children received outpatient treatment only for...
Read MoreDuowei News journalist Wan Yizhong reports (translated by CDT): “When friends ask me to recommend some Chinese movies, I will always tell them to watch documentaries,” Beijing Film Academy professor Cui Weiping told Duowei News....
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